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Welcome To PainAid!
Welcome to PainAid, the American Pain Foundation's interactive online community. You will need to register for a free login to use our chats and discussion boards. Click here to register and join our community. If you have previously registered and forgotten your password, click here.
Here you'll find:
Topics range from illness-specific pain, traditional and complementary treatments, to depression and family matters, to financial issues such as disability and workers compensation.
This free service is an online forum for people living with pain, and their caregivers. It is staffed almost entirely by highly qualified volunteers with a range of backgrounds, all of whom either live with chronic pain or care for people who do.
PainAid Mission
Our mission is to provide both discussion boards and chat (or conference) rooms for the purpose of educating both those who live with chronic/acute pain and for those seeking information and first-hand accounts of what all who live with chronic pain must endure. Your peers provide support, information, and self-advocacy ideas. In addition, we have a growing group of healthcare professionals who have volunteered their time to respond to questions, provide general information, and identify where and how users may be able to locate more detailed answers. No PainAid staff person, including healthcare providers who treat pain, will offer medical or legal advice. Finally, the message board and chat rooms are also available for use as a source of camaraderie, making new friends, and establishing new connections with others you have met in the past.
Navigating PainAid
If this is your first visit to PainAid, please review our Guidelines and Disclaimers/Privacy Policies, which cover all the rules that apply while you are using this site. PLEASE read through it as you must accept all terms before beginning.
Our schedule for our Conference Room chats describes the day and time of each scheduled chat. PainAid staff will moderate all scheduled chats. We also offer healthcare professional guest speaker groups throughout the week and special topic chats throughout the year. Please check the event calendar for a snapshot of the day's or month's chats.
Our message boards include a wide range of specific forums with many sub-topics when appropriate. We devote discussion forums for each expert who interacts with PainAid visitors. Links will be found throughout PainAid to assist you in locating a specific area.
Thank You For Joining Us
Our online community is here to provide support, decrease your sense of isolation, improve your pain care, and encourage you in your pursuit of a better quality of life. Talk with others, receive and offer support, get tips and share your stories. It's easier than you think! When you register, you'll be asked to provide a user name and a password (make something up that you'll remember). Then you can join the discussion and participate, or just read the dialogues. Either way you'll get something out of it. Broaden your network, make new friends, learn something - any time of day or night.
Thank you for joining our PainAid Community!
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